Amazon Athena

DuckDB

duckdb/duckdb

TrendingPopular

In-process analytical SQL database; the SQLite of analytics, querying Parquet, CSV and Iceberg directly.

Trino

trinodb/trino

Popular

Distributed SQL query engine for federated analytics over lakes, warehouses and databases.

Apache Arrow

apache/arrow

Popular

Standard columnar in-memory format and libraries (PyArrow) enabling zero-copy data exchange between tools.

Apache Parquet

apache/parquet-java

Popular

Ubiquitous open columnar file format for analytics, the storage layer under most lakes.

Apache DataFusion

apache/datafusion

Rising

Extensible Rust query engine on Arrow, used as the foundation for many new databases.

Presto

prestodb/presto

Meta's original distributed SQL engine, now with a native C++ (Velox) execution path.

Starburst

starburst.io

Enterprise Trino platform (Galaxy and Enterprise) for lakehouse analytics and data products.

Dremio

dremio/dremio-oss

Iceberg-native lakehouse query engine with semantic layer and reflections for acceleration.